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  • A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan

    by Will Brooker, Warren Buckland, Dr. Gregory Frame, Lara Herring, Stella Hockenhull, Stuart Joy, Miriam Kent, Peter Krämer, Isabelle Labrouillère, Ben Lamb0, Todd McGowan1, Gilles Menegaldo2, Kimberly A. Owczarski3, Bernadette Pace4, Claire Parkinson5, Fran Pheasant-Kelly7 ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors
    A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan's body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director's auteur status. This volume contributes to the scholarly debates on Nolan and includes original ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • James Bond Will Return

    Critical Perspectives on the 007 Film Franchise

    Edited by Claire Hines, Terence McSweeney, Stuart Joy ...
    Bronze Medal, 2025 Eiffel Award - Retrospective, Eiffel FoundationFor over six decades, James Bond has been a fixture of global culture, universally recognizable by the films’ combination of action set pieces, sex, political intrigue, and outrageous gadgetry. But as the British Empire entered the final stages of collapse, as the Cold War wound down and the “War on Terror” began, and as the visions ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • James Bond Will Return

    Critical Perspectives on the 007 Film Franchise

    Edited by Claire Hines, Terence McSweeney, Stuart Joy ...
    Bronze Medal, 2025 Eiffel Award - Retrospective, Eiffel FoundationFor over six decades, James Bond has been a fixture of global culture, universally recognizable by the films’ combination of action set pieces, sex, political intrigue, and outrageous gadgetry. But as the British Empire entered the final stages of collapse, as the Cold War wound down and the “War on Terror” began, and as the visions ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Contemporary American Science Fiction Film

    Edited by Terence McSweeney, Stuart Joy ...
    Contemporary American Science Fiction Film explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the first two decades of the new millennium, offering a ground-breaking investigation of the impactful role of genre cinema in the modern era.Placing one of the most popular and culturally resonant American film genres broadly within its ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Traumatic Screen

    The Films of Christopher Nolan

    by Stuart Joy ...
    Christopher Nolan occupies a rare realm within the Hollywood mainstream, creating complex, original films that achieve both critical acclaim and commercial success. In The Traumatic Screen, Stuart Joy builds on contemporary applications of psychoanalytic film theory to consider the function and presentation of trauma across Nolan’s work, arguing that the complexity, thematic consistency and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Through the Black Mirror

    Deconstructing the Side Effects of the Digital Age

    Edited by Terence McSweeney, Stuart Joy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection charts the first four seasons of Black Mirror and beyond, providing a rich social, historical and political context for the show. Across the diverse tapestry of its episodes, Black Mirror has both dramatized and deconstructed the shifting cultural and technological coordinates of the era like no other. With each of the nineteen chapters focussing on a single episode of the ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • The Cinema of Christopher Nolan

    Imagining the Impossible

    Edited by Jacqueline Furby, Stuart Joy ...
    Series series Directors' Cuts
    Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent British cinema to become one of the most commercially successful directors in Hollywood. From Following (1998) to Interstellar (2014), Christopher Nolan's films explore philosophical concerns by experimenting with nonlinear storytelling while also working within classical ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • David Cronenberg

    Author or Filmmaker?

    by Mark Browning ...
    For more than thirty years, David Cronenberg has made independent films such as Scanners and A History of Violence which aim to disturb, surprise, and challenge audiences. He has also repeatedly drawn on literary fiction for inspiration, adapting themes from authors like William Burroughs, J. G. Ballard, and Patrick McGrath for the big screen; David Cronenberg: Author or Filmmaker? is the first ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Studying Comics and Graphic Novels

    by Karin Kukkonen ...
    This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout.Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of psychological and physical aspects of reader experienceCarefully structured to build a sequenced, rounded introduction to the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • The Film Paintings of David Lynch

    Challenging Film Theory

    by Allister Mactaggart ...
    One of the most distinguished filmmakers working today, David Lynch is a director whose vision of cinema is firmly rooted in fine art. He was motivated to make his first film as a student because he wanted a painting that “would really be able to move.” Most existing studies of Lynch, however, fail to engage fully with the complexities of his films’ relationship to other art forms. The Film ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction

    by Bran Nicol ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    Postmodern fiction presents a challenge to the reader: instead of enjoying it passively, the reader has to work to understand its meanings, to think about what fiction is, and to question their own responses. Yet this very challenge makes postmodern writing so much fun to read and rewarding to study. Unlike most introductions to postmodernism and fiction, this book places the emphasis on ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Autobiographical Comics

    Life Writing in Pictures

    by Elisabeth El Refaie ...
    A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth.In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth El Refaie offers a long overdue assessment of the key conventions, formal properties, and narrative patterns ... Read more

    $39.59 USD